the president said no americans were killed despite the isis terrorists detonating a bomb. he killed himself and members of his family. syrian defense forces say 13 people were killed, including six children, but the pentagon says right now, they can only confirm four civilian casualties. we do know that as our troops approached to capture the terrorist in a final act of desperate cowardice, with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up. not just with a vest, but to blow up that third floor, rather than face justice for the crimes he has committed. taking several members of his family with him just as his predecessor did. now, this isis leader s predecessor, al-baghdadi was killed in 2009. the white house released this image of the president and his national security team watching this operation in realtime as it unfolded. cnn s barbara starr joins us from the pentagon. barbara, tell us how this went down. reporte
the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
meanwhile, in pennsylvania, police are now expanding their manhunt for a convicted killer who has been on the run since escaping from prison a week ago. on capitol hill, senate republicans are hoping for answers today about minority leader mitch mcconnell s health after he apparently froze twice in two months. and excessive heat is expected to break records across the country today while we have got our eyes on tropical storm lee expected to become a major hurricane in just a couple of days. and we begin this morning with the very latest on the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump. the judge overseeing the case will hold a hearing today on motions by co-defendants kenneth chesebro and sidney powell to separate their positions, their portions of the case, from other defendants. it comes after all 19 defendants in the case pleaded not guilty and waived their arraignments originally scheduled for today. and today s hearing also comes as there are new devel
two days until trump trial. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia with this question. do you have a state of mind that would preclude you from rendering an impartial verdict based upon evidence adduced at the trial of former president donald trump because that s the question that will be front and center on monday when jury selection begins and trump becomes the first former president to ever face criminal prosecution. said differently, said more simplistically. can trump get a fair trial in manhattan. that s today s poll question. it s were carnage.com. here s what he said yesterday. jury selection is largely luck. it depends who you get. it s very unfair that i m having a trial there judge juan merchan from the new york supreme court has the difficult task of seating a fair and impartial jury 12 jurors, six alternates in a manhattan borough where trump in 2020 received only 12.3% of the vote in 2016 against hillary clinton. he got less than 10%. no wonder the
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